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Settlement Relocation and the Emergence of Early Urban Centers in the Heartland of Chinese Civilization, 2500-1600 BCE (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Liye Xie. Chun Fu Liu. Casey Lun.

This is an abstract from the "New Thoughts on Current Research in East Asian Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Settlement patterns and social structures shifted significantly around 2500 BCE in the late Longshan era, and again around 1600 BCE when an intraregional state identified with the historical Shang dynasty evolved in the Central Plain, heartland of Chinese civilization. Our research examines the political transformation from...